Garritan Jazz & Big Band

A Complete Jazz & Big Band Collection

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The Industry's First Jazz & Big Band Library
Featuring Trumpets, Trombones, Comprehensive Saxophone collection, Keyboards, Rhythm Section - over 50 Individual Instruments
Create Realistic-Sounding Jazz & Big Band Arrangements Quickly and Easily. Build Your Own Bands and Jazz Ensembles
Includes the NI KONTAKT Sample Player. Works with Notation Programs. Great Sounding Instruments with Expressive Control.
Tongue/Slur Articulations, Intonation, Vibrato, Extended Ranges of the Instruments, Variety of Mutes & More.
On a single computer or laptop, Mac or PC, Standalone, VST, DX, AU, RTAS, and supported Notation programs.

Instrument List:

16 Saxophones:

Sopranino saxophone
Mezzo Soprano sax
3 Soprano saxophones
(2 straight, 1 curved)
3 Alto saxophones
C Melody saxophone
3 Tenor saxophones
Baritone saxophone
Bass saxophone,
Contrabass saxophone,
Subcontrabass saxophone,
plus derivative ensemble instruments

6 Trumpets (with mutes):

5 Bb Trumpets
(all with extended range,
one with extreme range),
Open, straight mute, cup mute, Harmon mute, bucket mute
Flugelhorn,
Plus derivative ensemble instruments

5 Trombones (with mutes):

4 Tenor Trombones
Bass Trombone
Open, straight mute, cup mute,Harmon mute, bucket mute
Plus derivative ensemble instruments

6 Additional Winds:

Piccolo
Alto Flute
C Flute
Bb Clarinet
Bass Clarinet
Tuba
Plus derivative ensemble instruments

3 Keyboards:

Steinway B grand piano
Vintage electric piano
Jazz Accordion

3 Guitars:

2 Electric guitars,
Acoustic guitar

6 Basses:

2 Upright acoustic basses,
2 Fretless electric basses,
2 Fretted electric basses

3 Drum Kits:

Classic Stick kits
Fusion Stick Kit
plus separate instruments (kick, snare, toms, hi-hat, cymbals)
Brush kit plus separate instruments

Percussion:

Vibraphone
(hard and soft mallets)
Wide variety of percussion including Latin percussion, bongos, congas, timbales, wood blocks, bells, whistles, etc.

Jazz & Big Band Demos:

Here are demos of the world's first Jazz and Big Band library - a library we hope will help fill a conspicuous vacancy in the world of sample libraries. These first demos are intended to give a taste of many of the new instruments and their capabilities. We hope you enjoy them and find the implications enticing and exciting.

Type	Info	Play MP3
Scream Trumpet Psychosis in Trumpetsville by Tom Hopkins	Tom Hopkins shows a very unique capability of the Jazz and Big Band library - the upper extreme range of the trumpet. All other instruments are from the jazz and big band library as well.
Ballamy Sax Solo by Joe Cavanagh & Markleford Friedman	This excerpt comes from a track from the Sirius B album "Casa do Sol" geaturing Tenor player is Iain Ballamy , one of the UK's top Jazz musicians. Joe Cavanagh & Markleford Friedman have realized this sax solo using one of the tenor saxes in the Jazz and Big Band library as well as the fretted bass, electric piano and fusion drum kit.
Jazz Ensemble Ballad for Mr. G by Paul Read	"Ballad for Mr. G." is an excellent jazz ballad written by Paul Read.
Big Band Margot's Mood by Chuck Israels	Chuck Israel's "Margot's Mood" This well-written big band work swings and shows a variety of interactions of the various instruments. Visit Chuck's wesite at http://www.chuckisraels.com/
Big Band with 8 Brass & 5 saxes by Gary Lindsay	A Big Band arrangement by Gary Lindsay with varioust combinations of instruments in a brief amount of time. The instrumentation for this piece is: 2 alto saxes, 2 tenor saxes, 1 bari sax, 4 trumpets, 3 tenor trombones, 1 bass trombone, upright bass, and drums. This example is taken from a book by Gary Lindsay called “Jazz Arranging Techniques - from Quartet to Big Band".
Funk Demo 1 Funk Demo 2 By Barry Bignold	Barry Bignold, television composer from the UK, shows how the Jazz and Big Band library can get down and funky!
Jazz Trio Steinway Jazz piano, Upright Bass, Brush Drum Kit.	Craog Reeves has provided this relaxed jazz trio work.
Jazz Ensemble with different combinations of instruments.	Tom Carruth from MakeMusic wrote this jazz combo piece. Its a six piece jazz ensemble with drum kit, acoustic bass, piano, Flugel horn, Tenor Sax and Muted trumpet.
Jazz Quartet with Tenor sax, Steinway Jazz piano, Fretless Electric Bass, Brush Drum Kit.	Jazz quartet with tenor sax, piano, fretless bass, and brush drum kit. Details about the individual instruments are contained in the instrument-specific demos below.
Jazz Quartet with Soprano Sax, Rhodes Keyboard, Fretted Jazz Bass, and Fusion Drum Kit.	All inflections in the soprano sax are programmed, including bends, vibrato intensity and speed, tongue/slur, attack strength, air flow sounds, key click sounds, and player breaths.
Horn and Rhythm Section with Bari Sax, Tenor Sax, Alto Sax, Trombone, and a Scream Trumpet on top.	Certain characteristics of the trumpet are controllable, like the “kiss” at the end of the final “double high C.“ Rhythm section is Rhodes, fretted Jazz bass, and fusion drum kit.
Jazz Quartet with Flugelhorn, Vibes, Upright Bass, and Classic Jazz Drum Kit	All inflections in the Flugelhorn are programmed using the extensive MIDI controllers. The vibes are available in both hard and soft mallets; this demo uses the hard mallets. .
Trombone Section Open and with the various mutes	This demo shows the various mutes of the trombones. Using essentially the same phrase, this demo starts with an open bells (no mutes) and goes throught the various mutes - Straight mute, Cup mute, Harmon mute and Bucket mute. This example is taken from a book by Gary Lindsay called “Jazz Arranging Techniques - from Quartet to Big Band".
Breathy Sax Solo by Barry Bignold	Barry Bignold plays a tenor sax solo with the Jazz and Big Band library and uses the controolable breath feature and just the right nusances.
A Selection of Saxes with Tenor sax, Bass sax, Alto sax, Soprano sax, Baritone sax, Sopranino sax and Contra-Bass sax.	The Garritan Jazz and Big Band library contains an unusually large list of instruments from the saxophone family; this includes rarely seen instruments like the sopranino, contrabass sax, and sub-contrabass sax. This demo uses essentially the same MIDI data (with a few modifications) for each of the featured saxophones. Octave transpositions, key transpositions and some phrase transpositions have been applied to keep each instrument in its “bread and butter” range. There have also been some modifications to articulations and tempi to supply some variety to the demos while still maintaining a direct comparison between types. Each saxophone has standard expressive controls (mod wheel volume/timbre, sustain pedal tongue/slur, velocity attack strength, etc.) but adds some new controls for things like key click sounds and air flow noise. There are also breath sounds available (and used in this demo).
Clarinets	This short example shows a clarinet section from the Jazz and Big Band Collection. This example is from the Jazz Arranging Text by Gary Lindsay.
Steinway Jazz Piano	This features the Steinway piano in the library, This instrument has been designed with variable brightness control to allow adjustments to suit different mixing requirements. The brightness control in this demo is set to a moderate level. This demo features the excellent playing of W. Michael Jaap.
Vintage Electric Keyboard (Rhodes)	This demo is in two parts: The first part is “dry” with the tremolo control turned off. The second part has the tremolo control turned on at a modest level. The programming of this instrument mimics the stereo speaker tremolo of the original instrument. Once again, the artist playing this demo is W. Michael Jaap.
Upright Basses	The Jazz and Big Band library contains two fine upright basses. The two basses differ somewhat in basic sound character. Both instruments have extensive controls for string noises, finger noises, and amount of low bass content. The demo is in two parts, one for each bass.
Brush Drum Kit	This is one of the really groundbreaking features of the new library. The snare brush stirs are actually “playable.” This means that the brush stirs can be programmed at any given tempo and this tempo information can be later modified at will. This demo illustrates this unusual feature. The same MIDI data is repeated 3 times. The first time is at a medium tempo. The second time is at a slower tempo but leads to an accelerando near the end of this section. The third time is at a fast tempo. Note that the stirs follow all of the tempo changes. Of course, this demo also shows the various brush “hits” available for snare, toms, and cymbals..
Classic Jazz Drum Kit	The Classic Jazz kit uses single layer drum heads and a 15in hihat for the distinctive sound of classic Jazz drumming. This and the following demo are designed to display each of the drum and cymbal types in the kit for sound evaluation. Both kits are recorded “in place” in true stereo for a excellent three dimensional image.
Fusion Drum Kit	This kit uses double layer heads and a 14in. hihat, along with other techniques to create the “tight” and dry sound of fusion recordings. All ride and crash cymbal choices are available to both kits. Different cymbals are used for these two demos to show some of the possibilities. Both demos are mixed dry.
Shakes	See Tom perform Trumpet Shakes
	In the coming weeks and months there will be additional demos showing section work and full big band mixes, along with more of the individual instruments, programming features, and brass mute choices. Stay tuned.

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